Hallucinating crystal: A Goblin Case Study

Some goblin doomsday prophets identify crystal as the sign — not of the end, but of the part right before the end, which lasts longer than anyone expected.

The goblin black market currently quotes crystal at three buttons and a half-empty matchbook, with delivery promised 'within the fortnight, weather and goblins permitting.'

Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on ghost

Across the goblin warrens, ghost is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

Echoes of alchemy in the Goblin Archive

In the goblin underground, alchemy is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

The Goblin Verdict on crystal

On the question of crystal, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.